How would YOU set up a Multi-Step form for both NEW & EDIT

Question
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I’m setting up a form for users to create a NEW listing, but the same form is also used for EDITING a listing.

The form has a few steps. which is done by hiding and showing groups till the form is filled.

I want to inform users for ERRORS before they go to the next step, but i don’t want to save the data on clicking the NEXT button, only by clicking the SAVE button (which is accessible anytime).

Why? because when the users comes back to EDIT a single piece of data, i don’t want to use WORKFLOW runs when he browses thru the steps without changing anything, only after he hits the SAVE button.

how would u set up the ERRORS in this case?

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I think you can get away with not saving it everytime just the once at the end, because bubble creates a session for each user in which it save the values of your input fields or something amazing like that.

So for example:

Step one 2 field | click next | don’t save
Step two 5 fields | click next | don’t save
Step three 3 fields click save | save all previous field (10 fields @ once)

Tha should work with the show and hide method

And now for the edit side just do the samething but make sure you -repopulate the all the fields first or it will save the blank field E.g. override

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but i want to let user know of any errors before they go to the next step, how?

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Why the concern about workflow runs?

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bubble charges by workflow run

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Oh, so you’re on the legacy pricing still? On the new pricing tier, they don’t charge by workflow runs (according to bubble.is/pricing)

I do believe it matters on legacy plans, though. I’m still on legacy, so I have that to deal with, but thought I’d check.